and captured, slaves she had on bos man-of-which usually accompany si instantly darted upon the poor bit off his right leg at the knee, tinging the water soon at!
ae, and in their praises of his heroic conduct; and a Of s vessel on Mr, Long's principle to sink. movement has been set on foot to bring the The German bark Gesine Brans, Captain F, von Truwbach, which arrived at Hongkong on the 2st inst, from Honolulu, reports ing encountered some bad weather, but a slight damage and loss of some jerts leaving Honolulu on the ud had fine weather the firat part of the age, and light and model.N.E winds till long. 178 E, and lat, 22 from thence came and light easterly winds long. 162 E. and lat, 23 N,; from thence from the ONE. Out iP to, On the 15th the deck with water up to away some of the bulwarks to, to the southward. Vrom the 14th of November to port, E.N.E, and E. winds with fine weather,—Daily Press, tly of good swimmers who the water without any The common accident is that
officer offers a ent solution of the zed with erampe; but an Eglin naval if phenomenon, He bases his theory on his own i His ship was lying for ® long for cricketing parti to the shor every evening, having their small boat, Of eourae who would got to the The writer, in the course of sharp struggle for the lead, opened his mouth to Ureathe, and some of the spray flying in the wind got into his throat and took passage down the trachea, "I could neither," ho says, "get avy breath in or any out, and I soon began to feel L was dying on the top of the water. hero mast have been dozen men close to me, but I could not a], touch loss call to them. I kept swimming on for the shore, In about thirty seconds my senses began to leave me. 1 ceased swimming, and my legs went down, whey, luckily for mo, fley touched the bottom;)" violent jum helped me to cough up the drop of water. staggered on shore and fell quite exhausted on the beach, much to the surprise of all the men with me." It is the opinion of tt ent les man that many fatal accidents to swimmers are due to a drop of water in the wind) A conclusive proof that they are not due to cramp, is the fact that a man rescued within two minutes of sinking in thie mysterious manner, it always found to be beyond all hope of re itation.—China Mail.
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